Analytics: Introducing Wave, the Analytics Cloud

The Salesforce Analytics Cloud is designed for everyone. Whether you’re a business
user, analyst, or developer, Analytics Cloud enables you to access any data, get answers
to any questions, and act immediately. Now anyone can access powerful insights and let
the data tell a story. Finally, business intelligence for the rest of us!

Available for an additional cost in: Enterprise, Performance,
and Unlimited Editions

Attention

Wave, the Analytics Cloud releases an
update between major releases. Customers will see new features and
enhancements as part of the new “Spring ’15 Plus” release. See New in Spring `15 Plus for details.

Valuable insights are already in your data—you just need to find them.
Explore and ask questions through rich, interactive visualizations.
Find answers you didn’t even know you were looking for.

Drive Action Through Your Discoveries

The purpose of analysis is action. Easily share your findings and
collaborate across your team and organization through dashboards,
Chatter, and the iOS mobile app.

Move Fast, Maintain Control

Salesforce Analytics is native to the cloud and built on the Wave
platform. You can design custom analytic apps and deploy them to users
in a fraction of the time of traditional business intelligence
implementations, all while ensuring the highest levels of security and
easy administration.

New in Spring `15 PlusWave, the Analytics Cloud releases an update between major releases. Customers will see new features and enhancements as part of the new “Spring ’15 Plus” release.

Find the Value in Your Data
Now everyone can have a conversation with data through interactive visualizations. Salesforce Analytics rewards your curiosity with fast, responsive answers. Exploring any type and combination of data is now fun, easy, and powerful.

Explore Data Anywhere with Salesforce Analytics for iOS
Insights are not and should not be restricted to the desktop. With the mobile-first Analytics Cloud, you can explore all types of data from your mobile device. Check in on this quarter’s customer cases, track progress toward sales goals, and instantly share learnings with your team. No matter where you are, collaborate and share insights with colleagues and know your customers like never before.

Visualize Rich Data in Your Web Browser
A dashboard is a collection of lenses that interact with each other. Drill into one and watch the others change to help you shape the questions you're asking. Don't just look at the visuals; use the tools on the dashboard to dive deeper into the data you care about. Go ahead, click around and explore!

Explore Data with Powerful Visualization Tools
Get to know the boundaries and shape of your data. Use explorer’s interactive visualization tools to play with different views, zoom in and zoom out, and see what you get with different charting options.

Dashboards Help Users Help Themselves
A dashboard is your vehicle for telling a specific, focused story about data -- a story that people can learn from and act on. Dashboards help engage team members in active discussion and collaboration around your data, regardless of where they are. When you share Analytics Cloud data via a dashboard, you set up end users to explore on their own, without turning them loose on the whole dataset.

Integrate Data from Anywhere
In your business, you have data everywhere: warehouses, spreadsheets, logs, and in Salesforce. With Analytics Cloud, it’s easy to integrate data from any of these sources, including external data such as SAP or Oracle data, mobile app data, or product sensor data.

Get Analytics Up and Running Fast
Setup is simple and familiar. You can enable Analytics Cloud from the Setup menu. Enable, configure, and establish access control and security just like you would for other Salesforce products.